5 The ones who came before.
Asama Shiina, my newly acclaimed mother, was a descendant of Xen, one of my commanders I had die in battle. Don't get me wrong. I was never a heartless demon lord who would kill his subordinates for fun.
What actually happened was that Xen came up to me and pleaded to me one day.
You see when demons produce offspring (the normal asexual way) they use up most of their life force. Xen lost almost all his life force after birthing his daughter and was eventually going to die due to having too little life force.
But having been the prideful demon that he was, he couldn't accept a lame death like that. Instead, asked me to let him die in battle. So I let him be part of a future scheduled necessary but losing battle to mark the site of his death.
And die he did.
Really early in fact. It didn't even take three minutes for the enemy to get rid of him. Honestly, dying that early into battle with almost no kills to your name was way more shameful than dying due to losing life force in my opinion. But at least you could say that he died attempting to fulfil his dream of ridding every human alive.
Little did he know that generations later, his great(*43) granddaughter would end up marrying a human. Not only that, but she would also give birth to his child and not lose any life force in the process.
I pitied Xen.
But I was sure that even he would be glad to know that his great(*43) granddaughter gave birth to the reincarnation of the demon lord. Or rather, an ex-demon lord- me.
On the other side, Asama Yiho, my father, had a rather interesting lineage.
Apparently, he was the descendant of two human heroes that returned after defeating the demon lord, AKA me. He was the descendant of the couple that attained glory and became the saviour of mankind.
Of course, I was talking about the two perverted skimpily dressed losers who got their ass handed to them a few minutes after picking a fight with me the day I died. AKA S and M.
The history books said that three days after the demon lord expulsion expedition (the plan to murder a completely innocent ma-, me) the healer, Yiino and magic swordsman, Hora, returned to the human kingdom as heroes.
What this actually meant is that after I beat the crap out of them, they probably woke up, and Yiino fixed Hora up. Then they made their way back to the human kingdom and got all the glory.
Hero wench got the actual honour of being called the demon lord slayer and has been worshipped since.
The other lineage from my parents' side was rather unremarkable. They were offsprings of artisans and craftsmen.
Anyhow, that concluded my parents' past. In the present, they were the two generals of the interracial alliance. My mother is a pure demon and magic artefact user. My father is a human sage.
That made me a halfbreed. Not that uncommon in the interracial alliance apparently.
My parents took refuge from their respective nations in the fairly recent past and defected to the interracial alliance nation of Japan and worked hard to rebuild it. Ever since then, they have decided to serve the country.
[So that's about it.] Hero wench said after the long-ass exposition. [And also, when will you stop calling me hero wench?]
We had been conversing through mana thought conduction for over ten hours now.
[Is hero wench not your name?]
[Of course not! It's Yuuno… Sadou Yuuno!]
[I see. I heard my mother call me Mao. So that would make my name Asama Mao. Which if you say it like us demons do would be Mao Asama… sounds sort of suspicious don't you think, hero wench?]
[Y-U-U-N-O! And yeah it does. Whoever named you either has a terrible naming sense or simply lack the basic amount of creativity.]
{a/n: sorry. but also mess with the yuuno sadou syllable order and u get yuus(h)a dono. so she wasn't safe from the bad naming sense either. welp.}
[Anyways! What's your answer? What are you going to do in this life? Now that you know your parents are going to be away on the battlefield regardless of you being there.]
[Nothing.] I shrugged.
[STILL?!]
[Yep… from what I heard, if you take all the war tension away, this world is my ideal. I don't want to waste my life thinking about what would happen if a war hypothetically took place. I'll just enjoy this life to its absolute limit.] I answered without any hesitation. [Plus, seeing how the world is structured right now... even though it is a little unstable, a war would be unlikely to break out.]
She stopped for a minute to think.
[I know that what you're saying is right. I know that forcing a civilian into war is wrong. And I hate to admit it but you're the strongest asset our country could have. Even during our fight, you were clearly strong enough to keep up with me. You can change this world for the better if you want to.]
[Wait wait wait wait wait... I think there's a misunderstanding here.]
[Huh?] What did she mean 'keep up with her'?
[I could've overpowered you any time I wanted to. And I already knew of your time skill. It's impossible to not know going by how much you flaunted it.] She wasn't even in the same league as I was yet she has the audacity to blabber on about this bs.
[Sure, sure, whatever you say.]
[No, I'm not kidding! The only reason I let you kill me was that I needed your time manipulation attribute in me for the reincarnation spell.]
[Nnhn.] She nodded with a faint smile on her face.
[Ughhh!!! I'm not lying.]
[It's alright.] Her hands patted my shoulder.
[Stop being so dismissive about it. O-or… or else-]
[Or else what, kiddo?]
[I'll start throwing hands.] I 'hmph'ed.
[You'll what now?] A creepy voice emerged from her head. But I was the former demon lord god damn it. Like hell, I would be frightened by some pipsqueak!
[I'm gonna beat you up.] I replied confidently.
[How could you say that to a one-year-old girl. You feind!]
[Shut up! Or are you perhaps scared? This time I won't go easy on you.]
[Try me. I dare you.] Her words were cold. But I wouldn't be shaken from that much!
[Let the records show that you were the one who provoked me.]
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Apparently, some mistakes were made. A two-day-year-old kid could obviously not hold up against his own weight let alone a one-year-old girl's. I didn't even have the power of mana by my side.
"YUUNO-CHAN YOU CAN'T HIT A BABY LIKE THAT!" Hero wench's mother saved me from the one-sided gut punches.
"It's fine Hime-san… he's the descendant of the great Xen-sama he should be able to handle this much." My mother retaliated. Xen that son of a-
'No! This was where you're supposed to take my side, woman! How can you call yourself my mother?!'
"But-" Hime-sama retaliated back! Keep going. You're doing a great job being the only sane one in this room. If you pull this off I'll owe you this favour for the rest of my life.
As soon as Hime-sama started opening her mouth, my assailant looks over innocently.
"Geh?" She said adorably while tilting her head sideways. Hime-san pursed her lips shut.
"Looks like it's just some innocent kid fun. Haha." She laughed awkwardly.
'The world sure is cruel.'
[Conniving bitch.] I used our contact to transmit my honest opinions to her.
[Looks like you need some more beating up.]
[NOOOOO!]
[Actually, on another thought… no.]
[Eh?]
[I heard of something that works much better on kids like you.]
[Eh?]
Her little fingers found their way to the bottom of my feet and started rubbing against it in an unwholesome manner.
For a second nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, like some part of my sanity breaking-
"HAHAHAHA!" I started laughing… roaring in fact. But because of my tiny vocal cords, all I heard is some giggling.
[STOOOPPP!] I transmitted my scream to hero wench.
[As if I would.]
"HAHAHAHAAA!" I gasped for air. [yamete pls.]
"Is Yuu-chan tickling Mao-kun?" Her father came over.
"Looks like she is." My father came over too.
I finally felt safe in their presence.
But that was nothing more than a naive thought. The next second their fingers reached every open pore of my body. I got triple-teamed.
What followed was a tickling session that left my mind broken, and my eyes lifeless.
I felt defiled.
Tickling was indeed torture. Yiina-san I'm sorry I even thought about doing this to you… but don't worry, your descendant took plenty of revenge.
"Phew! That's enough for today." The two fathers headed back.
[So what were you saying about being strong?]
[Nothing… miss.] 'I'll just hold it in for a year. Just you wait hero wench!'
[And from now on… you'll call me Yuu-nee. Got it?]
[Yes, Yuu-nee.] I'll get my revenge too.
I lay down gasping for my breath. My head was in her lap so that I could transmit thoughts. Lying on matchstick-like baby calves is more uncomfortable than I thought it'd be. But necessity comes before comfort.
[Ah! By the way Yuu-nee…] I started after I'm reminded of something from a bit ago.
[Yeah?]
[I could see how you would know Hora and Yiina. That's pretty obvious. But how'd you know Xen?]
[Oh, that?] She thought for a minute.
[I was the one who killed him.]
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Xen-san, I don't know if you're in heaven or in hell. I don't even know which you'd prefer. But I send you my deepest condolences. Your great(*43) granddaughter's friend's daughter is your killer.
